To All my Readers: This is the first fiction that I have written in quite a while. In my hiatus, I have been getting ideas for new fics and this is the first of my new line. Sorry to keep everyone waiting so long, but hopefully you will all like the new ideas I have conjured. Thank you all for keeping my stories alive.
Ms. Wolfwood

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Dragonball GT characters, sorry to say!

Author's Note: This story takes place during the GT saga of the tuffle, Baby. Which GT episode I have taken this idea from, I am not sure because it has been a while since I have watched the entire series. All I remember is that is from the Baby Saga.

The Cost of Freedom

Pan watched from a nearby cliff on the Planet Tuffle as her father and the rest of her family paid loyal homage to Baby. He had taken over the minds of every single person on earth, except for her and her grandfather. She couldn't bear to see the things that Baby was making her family do. Losing her father to Baby had been too much for her to bear. Her father was the most important thing to her and she knew she had to save him, no matter the cost. With her grandfather killed by Baby's Death Ball (at least that's what she had come to believe), she knew that it would be up to her to save her father and the rest of her beloved family alone.
Pan was so deep in her thoughts, that she did not notice someone approaching her from behind.
"Hello Saiyan." A voice bellowed. Pan turned around and saw her father standing behind her. He was lost in Baby's mind control.
"This is not my father." Pan's mind told her as she looked at him. She could tell that the hold Baby had on him was strong and that it would take everything she had in order to save him.
"Daddy, it's me Pan. Don't you remember?" she asked.
"I have no daughter and even if I did she would be nothing like you." Gohan sneered. These words hurt Pan very much. Her father had always told her how proud he was to have such a wonderful daughter. Now being under Baby's control, it seemed that he had forgotten everything of the person he once was. Tears began to fall from Pan's eyes.
"Did I say something to hurt your pathetic little feelings? Oh well, too bad!" Gohan exclaimed. Pan looked at her father in awe. What had Baby done to him? She had heard the story of how Vegeta was possessed by Majin Buu those many years ago and how he was still able to keep part of his former self in existence even though he was a Majin. Even though her father's mind had been taken over, he remembered nothing of the life before his "rebirth."
"DADDY, PLEASE SNAP OUT OF IT!!!!!" Pan screamed, the tears falling more freely now. Her father simply sneered at her. She knew that there was no hope to save her father this way. Pan was faced with the harsh reality that she would have to kill her father to release him from Baby's spell. She looked to the heavens where she knew her grandpa was.
"Oh Grandpa Goku, please forgive me. There is no other way to save daddy from Baby. I know if you were here, you would be able to think of a way to save daddy that wouldn't end his life. Please give me the strength I need to kill my daddy because without your strength in my heart, I will not be able to go through with this." Pan said quietly. She looked back at her father. His eyes began to glow a crimson red. She knew that Baby's control over his mind was increasing.
"Daddy, please forgive me." Pan stated as she gathered up a ki ball and prepared to fire at him.